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<br /> Give Now <br /> <br />UNC-Chapel Hill Takes Aim At Campus Alcohol Abuse <br />By ELIZABETH FRIEND • JUL 22, 2016 <br />ShareTwitter Facebook Google+ Email <br /> <br />The university's new policy attempts to balance enforcement with education. <br />Credit Pixabay <br /> <br />Officials at UNC-Chapel Hill hope a new initiative will change the way students think about <br />alcohol. <br /> <br />The school's revised alcohol policy takes a public health approach to problem drinking, <br />emphasizing education, prevention, treatment and recovery. <br /> <br />Dean of Students Johnathan Sauls said while alcohol abuse has been a long -standing problem <br />on many college campuses, more students these days are engaging in dangerous consumption <br />habits. <br /> <br />"Students are drinking significantly larger quantities of alcohol in single settings, in ways that I <br />don't think were probably as pervasive, or certainly not recognized, even a genera tion of <br />students ago," said Sauls. <br /> <br />The new approach attempts to balance enforcement of current regulations with education about <br />the impact of drinking on individuals and the campus community. <br /> <br />"We finally concluded that a comprehensive multi -disciplinary approach was going to be a <br />much better approach than simply trying to discipline our way out of this," said Sauls. "That has <br />not worked on this or any other campus, to my knowledge."